reindeer moss

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reindeer moss, Cladonia rangiferina

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reindeer moss (countable and uncountable, plural reindeer mosses)

  1. A lichen (Cladonia rangiferina) that grows in areas of alpine tundra.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 870:
      They passed alder swamps and bamboo groves and pale green reindeer moss.

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